"In my opinion, Greg McMichael very early on in this tried to establish a narrative. He made comments like 'Ahmaud Arbery was trapped like a rat,' 'stop or I'll blow your - and I won't repeat it again - head off.' Effectively admitted that he wasn't sure what Ahmaud Arbery had done wrong," Walmsley said. Walmsley described the events that led to the shooting of Arbery and commented on remarks made by the three convicted men. Arbery was "hunted down and shot": Walmsley said Arbery was "hunted down and shot" before the sentencing of the three men convicted of killing the 25-year-old Black man running in a Georgia neighborhood in 2020."When I close my eyes, I see his execution in my mind over and over. I'll never get that chance to sit next to my son ever again - not at the dinner table, not at the holidays and not at a wedding," he said Friday in the courtroom. "You know something that just does not sit right with me at this time? The man who killed my son has sat in this courtroom every single day next to his father. A father left without his son: Marcus Arbery, the father of Ahmaud, shared a victim impact statement ahead of the sentencing.And when they couldn't sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him,” she said. "They chose to treat him differently than other people who frequently visited their community. “These men have chose to lie and attack my son and his surviving family. They each have no remorse and do not deserve any leniency," Cooper-Jones said in her victim impact statement. Arbery's mother says her son's killers did not deserve leniency: Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother, addressed the court before the sentencing of the three men convicted of killing her son."When I thought about this, I thought from a lot of different angles, and I kept coming back to the terror that must have been in the mind of the young man running through Satilla Shores," he said
The chase of Arbery occurred for about five minutes, the judge said once he resumed speaking. "That one minute represents a fraction of the time that Ahmaud Arbery was running in Satilla Shores," he said, before going silent. A minute of silence: Walmsley called for silence for one minute before moving forward with the sentencing.
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They are also awaiting trial in federal court on charges of violating Floyd's civil rights. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao - were fired the day after Floyd's death. Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, has found through his research that Chauvin is one of only 11 nonfederal law enforcement officers - such as police officers, deputy sheriffs and state troopers - who have been convicted of murder for on-duty killings since 2005.Ĭhauvin and the three other former police officers involved in Floyd's arrest - J. "My hope is that he takes the time to learn about the man whose life he took and about the movement that rose up to call for justice in the wake of George Floyd's death."Ĭhauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson, did not respond to a request for comment.Ĭhauvin's conviction was a rare occurrence: It is unusual for police officers to be prosecuted for killing someone on the job. My hope is that he will be able to find it within himself to acknowledge the impact of his choices on George Floyd, his family, his fellow police officers, and the world," Ellison said. "My hope for Derek Chauvin is that he uses his long sentence to reflect on his choices and his life.
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